{"id":1711,"date":"2019-09-01T23:18:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T06:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2019-09-02T15:30:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T22:30:35","slug":"the-lorax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/2019\/09\/01\/the-lorax\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lorax ~ a Banned Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ASIN=0394823370&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;tag=inspiratlabor-20\">The Lorax was banned in Laytonville, California in 1989 from a local public school. The&nbsp;<b>Lorax<\/b>&nbsp;was&nbsp;<b>banned<\/b>&nbsp;because it portrays the foresting industry in an arguable negative way. Some people felt that this book was persuading children to be against logging.<\/p>\n<p>There are many websites, youtube videos, and lesson plan ideas for our theme. &nbsp;For starters, here is one website:&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plt.org\/educator-tips\/the-lorax-lesson-plans\">https:\/\/www.plt.org\/educator-tips\/the-lorax-lesson-plans<\/a> to help get you going if you need a starting point.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a site not specific to the Lorax movie but resources centered on environment that is worth reviewing: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hctfeducation.ca\/lessons-more\/\">https:\/\/www.hctfeducation.ca\/lessons-more\/<\/a> (BC resource)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/inspirationlaboratories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/make-a-difference.jpg\" alt=\"Everyone has the ability to make a difference. What will you choose to do?\" width=\"216\" height=\"162\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/inspirationlaboratories.com\/lorax-writing-prompts\/\">The Lorax Writing Prompts<\/a>&nbsp;as a springboard for facilitating a discussion on the topics in The Lorax.<\/li>\n<li>Make&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnplayimagine.com\/2013\/02\/gluppity-glup-and-schloppity-slopp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gluppity glup and schloppity schlop<\/a>&nbsp;and don\u2019t forget the building materials. {from&nbsp;<em>Learn Play Imagine<\/em>}<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.science-sparks.com\/2015\/02\/10\/lorax-science-activity-ideas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Make your own whisper-ma-phone<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<em>Science Sparks<\/em>&nbsp;plus lots of other ideas that pair well with&nbsp;<em>The Lorax<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Lemon Lime Adventures<\/em>&nbsp;has several&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/lemonlimeadventures.com\/the-lorax-activities-lessons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science ideas for&nbsp;<em>The Lorax<\/em><\/a>. I particularly like the Truffula Tree Cutters engineered with Lego and the planting seeds projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also check out&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seussville.com\/loraxproject\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lorax Project<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<em>Seussville<\/em>&nbsp;for conservation ideas, games, and activities.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, here is the original movie obtained from Youtube (25 min long).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FSSrYnc1yQs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lorax was banned in Laytonville, California in 1989 from a local public school. The&nbsp;Lorax&nbsp;was&nbsp;banned&nbsp;because it portrays the foresting industry in an arguable negative way. Some people felt that this book was persuading children to be against logging. There are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/2019\/09\/01\/the-lorax\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/inman-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}